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Should the U.S. government end the Cuba trade embargo?

Kind of makes you wonder how much longer the trade embargo of Cuba will last.

A recent Florida International University poll shows that the Cuban-American community in Miami-Dade County is largely split on whether the United States should continue an embargo against Cuba, with younger Cuban-Americans more likely to say the embargo should be lifted.

The decades-old embargo has become an issue in this year’s governor’s race, with Democratic candidate Charlie Crist saying he supports a change in U.S. policy.

The FIU poll, released last month, found that 52 percent of Cuban-Americans in Miami-Dade County opposed continuing the embargo, a figure that rose to 62 percent among Cuban-Americans ages 18 to 29. Among registered voters, 51 percent favored continuing the embargo, while 49 percent were opposed, the poll found. Republican registered voters were the strongest supporters of continuing the embargo.

“The increase in the opposition to the embargo continues a trend fueled not only by an ideological shift among exiles frustrated with the inability of the embargo to bring about the desired changes on the island,” FIU pollsters said in a written discussion of the poll’s findings. “It is also the result of the profound shift in the demographic composition of the Cuban origin population in the Miami area. More than a third of all Cuban Americans living in Miami today have arrived since 1995. In our survey, these respondents are most likely to oppose a continuation of the embargo. They are also the least likely to be registered to vote.”

The poll found that a large majority of Cuban-Americans support diplomatic relations with Cuba, though it also found that 63 percent supported the continued designation of Cuba as a “state sponsor of terrorism.”

The poll of 1,000 Cuban-Americans was conducted between February and May and involved conducting interviews with respondents who used landline and cell phones.